A Labour Party member bombarded a gay colleague with malicious texts

[davidinalameda]

A LABOUR Party member bombarded a gay colleague with malicious text messages after losing out to him in a party election.

David Bradley sent rival Ed Bramall homophobic messages after members had selected Mr Bramall to fight the Whitchurch Park ward at this year's local elections.

Bradley, who contested the Weston- super-Mare seat for Labour at this year's General Election, sent 33 texts using references to homosexuals including 'bum rapist' and 'gay lord'.

At Bristol Magistrates' Court Bradley, of Exley Close, Warmley, pleaded guilty to a charge of harassment without violence by sending the text messages to Mr Bramall's phone between March and August. The 29-year-old's actions have seen him suspended from the Labour Party and condemned by Gay rights charity Stonewall.

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